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Is there a reasonable notion of spectral theorem on a pre-Hilbert space?

I'm trying to understand how bad things could possibly get without Cauchy completeness as a criterion for Hilbert spaces in quantum mechanics. Obviously, doing calculus on a pre-Hilbert space would be ...
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what is about the corresponding power series?

According to the papers The absolutely continuous spectrum of Jacobi matrices and these lecture notes: periodicity ~ potential well or lattice (order) lack of absolutely continued spectrum ~ Anderson ...
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Mathematical reason for scatter states being special?

In infinite spectral theory, we have the discrete and continuous spectrum, which are called "bound" and "scatter states" in physics. My understanding is, if $O \in B(H)$ is a self-...
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